The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.